Comments on: VBoxMount is public http://www.xatom.net/archive/61/vboxmount-is-public/ Stürzen wir nicht fortwährend? Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:40:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: gicmo http://www.xatom.net/archive/61/vboxmount-is-public/comment-page-1/#comment-6624 gicmo Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:15:36 +0000 http://www.xatom.net/?p=61#comment-6624 @Marius: Thanks, corrected.<br><br>@ robepisc: I use the API that VirtualBox itself uses to write and read to virtual disks so everything that VirtualBox supports, should be supported by VBoxMount.<br><br>@foo: The first internal version was a FUSE based version. Not so great to say the least. I also investigated the use of device mapper, but that didn't work because of how dm is designed. (You actually explain it yourself why it doesn't work in your blogpost)<br>We needed something now, if at one time BUSE comes up I'd be happy to use it. Also the overhead is not that big. We use a socketpair for the IO which is said to be very fast. The kernelspace <-> userspace context switch wont go away with BUSE as well. @Marius: Thanks, corrected.

@ robepisc: I use the API that VirtualBox itself uses to write and read to virtual disks so everything that VirtualBox supports, should be supported by VBoxMount.

@foo: The first internal version was a FUSE based version. Not so great to say the least. I also investigated the use of device mapper, but that didn't work because of how dm is designed. (You actually explain it yourself why it doesn't work in your blogpost)
We needed something now, if at one time BUSE comes up I'd be happy to use it. Also the overhead is not that big. We use a socketpair for the IO which is said to be very fast. The kernelspace <-> userspace context switch wont go away with BUSE as well.

]]> By: devilx http://www.xatom.net/archive/61/vboxmount-is-public/comment-page-1/#comment-6625 devilx Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:32:50 +0000 http://www.xatom.net/?p=61#comment-6625 Hi Christian<br><br>you've linked Topalis to <a href="http://www.topalis/" rel="nofollow">http://www.topalis/</a>. :-)<br>Nice thing, this VBoxMount! Keep up great work! Hi Christian

you've linked Topalis to http://www.topalis/. :-)
Nice thing, this VBoxMount! Keep up great work!

]]> By: robepisc http://www.xatom.net/archive/61/vboxmount-is-public/comment-page-1/#comment-6626 robepisc Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:22:02 +0000 http://www.xatom.net/?p=61#comment-6626 Cool!<br>I'm curious:<br>1) Does it work (maybe read-only?) when the virtual disk is in use by a running virtual machine?<br>2) VirtualBox also supports VMWare, RAW partitions etc. virtual disks. What about VBoxMount? Cool!
I'm curious:
1) Does it work (maybe read-only?) when the virtual disk is in use by a running virtual machine?
2) VirtualBox also supports VMWare, RAW partitions etc. virtual disks. What about VBoxMount?

]]> By: foo http://www.xatom.net/archive/61/vboxmount-is-public/comment-page-1/#comment-6627 foo Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:18:35 +0000 http://www.xatom.net/?p=61#comment-6627 I should summarise it:<br><br>Please implement a BUSE (block in user-space) kernel module and then re-implement VboxMount on top of that I should summarise it:

Please implement a BUSE (block in user-space) kernel module and then re-implement VboxMount on top of that

]]> By: foo http://www.xatom.net/archive/61/vboxmount-is-public/comment-page-1/#comment-6628 foo Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:06:14 +0000 http://www.xatom.net/?p=61#comment-6628 Response here:<br><br><a href="http://glandium.org/blog/?p=212" rel="nofollow">http://glandium.org/blog/?p=212</a> Response here:

http://glandium.org/blog/?p=212

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